Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 1, Number 46, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 13 May 1871 — Page 2

Rural.

..ng report Terre-HAito/Hoi Committed to submit

|e the Ing o]

"iSocf 'e fniit list ituatioo at fo»lr form as hardiness, of such ap-

this meeting a Tej to give their opinion of productiveness and qual pies H» have been sufiiliently tested to wnrrnnt an opinion aslo their suitabe superfluous for your Committee appointed to report on apples to occupy time in speaking of varieties definitely but will give a few general views and speak of a few special things as appertaining to this subject. First, your Committee would venture the assertion that it is now useless to search for varieties of apples that are not liable to some disease or ailment in this locality, still some are liable to a greater degree than others. Some varieties showed the sjrmptoms of disease years ago, and others only for the last two or three years. A person at this time in planting an orchard should select such varieties as are hardy in his locality as regards climatic changes and productive naturally and of desirable quality for the purpose for which they are intended giving the question of rot, or speck, or mildew,or curculio secondary importance. And this, because the orchardist must mako up his mind to wait, either for his certainty of a good crop of perfect apples, or fight the enemy thoroughly and persistently. If we should throughout the stato instanti' ly cut down and dig up all those varieties which were sooner attacked by 'i these pests saving only those that are

less liable, it would not remove the difficulty. The insects, great andsmall, which causo most, if not all these ailments Imve a choico of food, but if they cannot obtain that which they prefer, they will like us, take tho best they can get. If they can find no Bolleflowers to prey upon, they will chccrfully put up with Jenett or Hoop, or even tlie\ common seedling. It is worthy of our consideration that the apples suited to our climate so as to bo profitabio, generally at least, originated as far or farther south than wo are loeat©d.

Cases in point—Maiden's Blush, orit-% gin New Jersey Rambo, origin on the

banks of the Delaware Jenett, origin Virginia Jersey Black, origin New '•5 Jersey Bcnefield, origin Kentucky. if'- Gilpin, from Virginia. Hoop, from

Pennsylvania. Milan, origin South. Smith's Cider, Pennsylvania. Winosap, New Jersey. Romansten, origin Now Jersey. Ben Davis, origin Kentueky. "kr

Mr. President, I am unable to fix my mind upon a single variety of apples 'that originated in it latitudo nortii of us that is profitable hore. Sorrio may ... mention the Red Astrichan ag the oxoeption. To which I answer that what credit the RedlAstriehati has for being a good bearejit obtained

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inmM^bMiuhiflffo "practical fftlly. It is nt, wisdom for orchardists to plant o'Voly in this locality of any variety *ol pples that had thefr origin at a point "to north of us,no matter who rocom\ls it or what may bo said in its by parties who "depend for their nioii upon what they Jiave seen of it more northerly latitudes. Nurserymen in this vicinity if they wish to bo useful in their avocation to tho community in which they live, must not grow largely of Aortliiorn varieties and noil theiii by tho puffs given them in northern catalogues, or New York catalogues, unless they are to bo sold to northern planters, "but must originate their own seedlings or new varieties, or propognto those that are originated 't In our latitudo, or south of us. and that have proven desirable. And in consideration of the result as shown by apples, western and southern fruit growers and nurserymen ought to work earnestly and intelligently to originate desirable varieties of Pears, Cherries,

Peaches, Plums, tc. And as an encouraging example I would speak of tho May Chorrv, which originated in Virginia, worth more to tho West than all the other cherries combined, of the imported varieties and the New York varieties and even tho varieties of Dr. Kirtlund, of Cleveland, Ohio. Cleveland is too far north to originate fruit for ns. With the above suggestions leave this subject. I had thought of Maying something of the diseases of appies and their causes, but as this conies appropriately under the head of insect •ommittee, will leave the subject for that committee. But 1 would improve this opportunity to urge this society to take effective measures to secure the appointment ot a Stato Entomologist. We need legislation to compel every f' man or woman who has a fruit tree oh his or her ground* to use thorough measures to tight, kill and conquer the various kinds of Insects that prey upon our fruitH. But this Is not practicable at present. Lot us commence by securing a State Entomologist, lie will naturally become the recipient of much information that others may obtain on this subject, and will obtain much hi infew self.

The collecting and compiling tins mformat ion and the annual report of said officer, will be preparing, not only the people In mnernl nut the law-makers to do what ever else shall bocome apparip ont as need fill and best.

But let ns do now what we see elcarly we ought to do lot us have the State i£ntomoloaiftt.

Respectfully submitted. '. J. F. Sori.K,

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A rm* tttiss. 'newly installed as the wife of a farmer, was one day called upon by a neighbor of the same professicn, who, in the absence of her hustmnri. risked her tor the loan of his plow Ibr a short time. *'I am sure you would bo accommodated** WHS the reply, "if Mr. Stone was at home—I don't know, ibongh, where ha keeps his plow but," she a id«\J, evidently sealous to serve, "there Is the cart In the yard couldn't plow with that till Mr. Stone gets

Ton pi back.'

Or all the mean* which can be used to give strength, tone, power, and intrinsic foreo to the organisation of the human lcing, working tho soil i* the 'beet. It Is hettcrthan medicine better than gymnast lm than travel, though

It be on toot better than riding on horseback, or going to •«*, or drinking the waters ot medical apringa.

Young Folks.

ENIGMA.

I aui composed of 30 letters: My 1, 9, 24, 6 is what all should be. Mv 19, 20,15 is a part of the head. I. My 15, 12, 7,18, 6, 28, 11, 6, 15 is the name of a city in New York. My 16, 22, 3 is a night bird. MV 24, 10. $B, 22 i#5 a form of water. My 2. 4, 8, 8, 27*|2t, 23, 28|is one of the

United States.

My 29, 13 is a preposition. My 25,12, 17 is a cape east of the United States. My 14, 15, 20, 30, 21. 16, 13 is a town in

Vermont.

You would use my whole if you wrote me a letter. Broadhead, ITW. WILLIE CLINTON.

•CHARADES.

An American scientist resorted to my tchole, in order to extort my second from my first.

My whole is crime, which should arouse my second, and be punished with my first, as pronounced Ijy Englishmen. II.

Detroit, Mich.

WORD PUZZLES.

My first is in come, but not in go.... My se«ond is in cultivator, but not in hoe. My third is in dunce, but not in fool. My fourth is in academy, but not in school. My fifth is in fiddle, but not in fife. My sixth is in struggle, and also in striie. My seventh is in post, but not in rail. My eighth is in spike, but not in nail. My ninth is in box, but not in butt. My whole is a county in Connecticut.

ALBERT M. GRISWOLD.

My first is in New Jersey, but not in Virginia. My second is not in Kentucky, but in

Georgia.

My third is in Ohio, but not in Oregon. My fourth is not in Colorado, but in Washington. My fifth is in Iowa, but not in Mexico. My sixth is not in Alabama, but in Idaho. My seventh is in Texas, but not in

Wisconsin.

My eighth is not in Kansas, but in Michigan. My ninth is in societies, and also in debates. My whole was President of the United

States. C. W. P.

ANSWERS TO ENIGMAS. CHARADES AC. IN LAST WEEK'S PAPER.

Anagrams.—1. .Continental. 2. Illustrated. 3. Predestination. 4. Cotcmporaneous. •". Directory. 6. Apothecary.

Poetical Mosaic.—1. Montgomery. 2. Wordsworth. 3. Longfellow. 4. Burns. Variations.—1. Missed, mist. 2.

offertng

ments for

Great,

grate. 3. Mowed, mode. 4. Knows, noso. Puzzle.— It L—bul.

Numeral Enigma.—Henry Ward Beecher.

THE following ingonious lines on the letter II liavo been attributed to various persons, but tho real author is not known

Twas whispered in Heaven, it was muttered In J-IeJl, And Kcho caught faintly the sound as it fell: On the coiillncs of Earth 'twas permitted to

to nian with his earliest

breath.

It. attends him at birth, it awaits him in death It-presides o'er his happiness, honor, and health, Is the prop of his house, and tho end of his wealth. It begins every

hope,

bound:

every wish it doth

It prays with the hermit, with monarch* is crowned In the heaps of the miser 'tis hoarded with care, Hut is sure to be lost in his prodigal heir. Without it the soldier, the seaman may roam, Hut. woe to the wretch who expels it from home. In the whispers of conscience Its voice will lie found, Nor e'en In the whirlwind of passion be drowned. 'Twill not soften the heart, but though deaf to the ear, It will make it acutely and eonstanly hear. Hut in shade let it rest, like a delicate flow-

Oli! breathe on it softly-it dies in an hour!"

TitE WORTH OF KNOWLEDGE.—Hero is a pleasant incident that shows the worth of knowledge Frank was playing about tho well-curb with his now knife in his hand, when, to his great sorrow, lie dropped the knife into the depths below. lie hoard it ringing and saw it glancing down tho old mossy stones, and almost tempted to spring down after it in his distress and vexation.

As it was, ho could only go into the house and tell his grief to his mother, who sympathized with him, and very likely"toolc occasion to tell him what a good tliing it was to bo careful, and all that.

Uncle John sat by the window, and when he had heard about the accident, he asked:

Was the knife open Yes sir I was making a fiddle out of a shingle." "Well, don't give up until wo SCO what can be done."

So he took a small looking-glass to the well and directed a brightsunbeau\ to search diligently in tho bottom for the missing knife. "There it is, uncle oh, there it is!" shouted Frank, in great excitement. "I see tho pearl handle. Now, if the sunbeam could only fish it up,"' he added. more sorrowfully.

Uncle John said nothing, but walked into the house, and presently caino out with a largo liorse-shoo magnet attached to a stout cord. Vory carefully lie lowered the magnet, keeping the sunbeam Jixed on the knife, and presently tho magnet touched the bright steel. It clung fast to the bar, and was literally fished up by it, to the great joy of Frank and the'adiuiratiou of all the beholders.

You seo by this, what a good thing a little science is.

A HKAF and dumb man at Niverville, N. Y.. was taking a walk on the railroad track last Wednesday, his custom of an afternoon when all of a sudden he thought he felt something tickling him from behind. He was very sensative, as all deaf and dumb people are, and turned aroand with the intention of thwarting the designs of the enemy, when he found he had been killed by a locomotive.

THK Davia-Butler row reminds the Chicago of a darky hired to hold the iron for a cross-eyed blacksmith. Said he: "A .holdon! a wait

the propulsion pf canal boam.

and

law.

In another

narrow

whole matter is highly

ments, it has been made an imperatiW condition that the inventor should surrender his rights to the patent. In t-M present case, nothing of this kind fi required, but the inventor will be entPtied to the offered revfard, and to a|L additional benefits that he may be ablf to derive from his patents.

These' liberal and judicious term! will have a tendency to stimulate th| inventive geniuses of our country ana that some of them will succeed i*| studying out good and practicably plans, meeting every requirement of the case, wo cannot for a moment doubt. I

The Commissioners, who are to de-| clde upon the merits of the various! plans, embrace some of our most hon-3 ored and able citizens. Gen. George B. McClellan, of New York city, Chief Engineer of the Department of Docks, 348 Broadway is to be chairman ofthe commission. Rules and regulations for the iiling and examination of plans will doubtless be issued by the Commission, which we shall duly place before our readers.

The Commissioners, after examining the plans, will decide as to the best, and may issue in the aggregate three certify icates. Should they issue but one cer-j tifieate, the holder will receive fifty thousand dollars. If two certificates are issued, the holder of number one draws thirty-five thousand dollars, and' number two fifteen thousand. If three certificates are issued, number one draws thirty thousand dollars, number two fifteen thousand, and number three five thousand.

After this selection from the plans and payment of rewards practical trials thereof upon the Erie Canal are to take place, and upon such trials, the Commissioners are to award the further sum of fifty thousand dollars, issuing three additional certificates, as before described, making the total sum of one hundred thousand dollars.

The improved navigation of the Erie Canal is a matter of momentous importance to the Stato of New York. Upon the economy and expedition with which produce can be transported through the canal depends the question, whether this Stat^ is to maintain its pre-eminence as the main highway for Western export and supply, and this city, its proud position as the emporium of shipping and commerce.— /Scientific American. tv ...^

SHALL WE MARRT1

Occasionally young men of good character indulge in gloomy doubts concerning the average American woman but such doubts can usually be traced to disappointed affection, or perjhaps

mjy hr

whereby a young man in

How TO FIIAME PICTURES.—It you have any magazine engraving you wish to frame yourself, lot a glazier, or man who sets"window glass, cut you a glass a little larger than the picture, so as to show a white margin all around. Then purchase a sheet of fancy paper, such as is shiny on one sido and white on the other—either black or red is pretty. Then, with a piece of stiff pasteboard or old paper-box, tho size of your glass, and a bit of tape and some "paste, you have all your materials. Cut strips of your paper about an inch wide. Lay down the pasteboard, place the picture on it, and the glass on tho face of the picture. Then oind tho edges of all together with your strips of paper, joining them as nearlv as you can at the corners, having the paper binding about as wide as your little finger-nail on tho picture side then on tho back, about two inches from tho top and ono inch from each side, paste on little loops of tape. Apiece ot paper or cloth pasted over tho oottom of these will make them firm. Lay away vour picture until thoroughly "dried, tfien put a cbrd through the foops and hang it np.

MRS. Tflaine, the accomplished wife of the Speaker, had a difficulty with Mrs. Stockton, the charming betterhalf of the Senator, about a cook. Meeting at a dinner table with qnlvthe Hon. Fernando Wood between them, Mrs. Stockton, leaning forward, said: "I am sorry, Mrs. Blaine, that wo have anything "disagreeable between us." The lion. Fernando was considerably embarrassed, not having heard the interesting story of the cook.— Washington Capital,

IT is mentioned as a possible explanation of the eccentricities of Mrs. Fair, the California murderess, that she was once a member of Mc Kean Buchanan's tragedy company. Such an experience

a minute! Looka head! Ef you're a gwino to strike where you look, I'm a an^OOdy for a lunatic asylum, or the wine to drop this Iron!

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TfeftRP.-H AU™ fiATnBlUrl#lXlNG MAIL. MAY 13.1871.

ONE HUNDRED THOUSAND DO*] wWflCAN PECULIARITIES. LARSREWARD FOR A NEWif! J™ is the only animal that can VENTION FOR PROPKLLim\ #h.jMonkevs and parrots talk

OAK4T nOATS 'X mice, and tea-kettles sing baCANAL BOAie. JLt i^cftifodiles, and cafM# dry bears The Legislature,of the SMte• of fa

hywil|81|rin an^

York, ut its recent session, PMsedgV bntthe only being tli# lias deW

/Qrtb

This bill had not, at the GOT--' of'the face and the ripple of the ing to press, been signed by the Oo* ,je, isheof the genus homo. Man is ernor, but his prompt "jP^ture J» ,onfy anim^l that can laugh—perexpccted,

the full text ot the bill. ,„„Jt ilaughed at.

The reward

is not hampered by any obnoxi

express mirthfulness by the

thereupon it oeoom—i, s, as somebody has hinted, because

column, ,s tho onlv animal that deserves to

offered is a handsom »i fe grievo to say that we Americans

(in

conditions,, the terms of pie the sun over shone on in all his tition are broad and liber ^, ^,^

our habits, the saddest, grimmest

ireei

the authorities. imnroi^-

(jagt jn a land where a man

-T, {. get a living easier than in any oth-

we are

imples of public r°wards forip orally almost as vivacious as the «nch, we cultivate tho social ameni-

al|nor ellain pW ha

vit

1 1 llni rfrp

iH age and

country can hopo to lead a respectable and cleanly life. But there are two classes of persons who^are exempt from its }oys and sorrows.

If you, voung man, are deaf, dumb, lame, blind, and idiotic, and if all your ancestors have been such, or if you are so abominably and detestably mean that vour life is that of a friendless, snarling cur, and you feel that you could not be any thing else than a dog, even to your wife, you can stand aside.

If you, young man, have conceived that peculiarly accursed ambition so common nowadays, of being a "fast man it you liavo mado up your mind to keep a* fast liorso and a concubine if your iaea of happiness is to have your hands full of cards aid your stomach full of oysters if you, in short, have made your arrangements to go straight to perclition, without change of cars, and four hours ahead of any body else, you'd better not marry. You will spend the money that the lionorablo man lavishes on" a home and its "light and life," on painted creatures,who drag your polluted name through every sink in the land who will display the jewelry and gifts you have bestowed on them, and curse you with a glib, round oath for a spooney and a fool. You, too economical to marry, will havo plenty to spend on long-haired cut-throats and black-legs, who will leave you at last, it maybe, to die, wifeless and childless, amid "the dust and cobwobs of a garret.

pjny has a grand purpose of its own to pqform in the world, and even nonseitse may have its uses. In this view, e«ay innocent amusement ought to be aofepted as a part of the social econonij, and there may be healthful feeling in all.

Then would we have all persons play

Cve\y

game? No of course not but we Relieve it would be better if all men andwomen would make it one of the duties of life to play some game, and .ffni ttoijrfurito ntMl ifli\Y

SHARP OLD DIRECTOR. About the beginning of the present centurt the old Bank of Albany (since defunct,) then prasidedtiver by sixteen .distiniMished representatives of Fatherland, ijsued its first circulating notes.

Immediately after their receipt from the priiter an application for a loan of a few thousand dollars was made to the bank IF a drover, well known in Albany his ability and financial soundness. 'he loan was passed by the beard, tnd the cashier ordered to pay the mc ley, who, like a faithful officer, revoly 1 in his mind as to what kind ot money 10 would pay—whether it should be the own new currency or gold. The fir item puzzled him it was new, The dii sctors were immediately re-con-vened, ud the subject was laicl before them. Chairs were drawn to tho great fire-plr e, thirteen clay pipes were lighted and discussion ensued upon the pr position to pay out the new current. No satisfactory conclusion was lil ly to be arrived at, until the followi ft speech was made by one of the nui ber:

Genlemen of the Board: These bills of urs, received to-day, have cost this bait a large sum of money. The engrave, the printer, the paper maker, ana intientals, all have to be paid. The thaght of these expenses, so justly incujed, does not stagger me in the least the bills aro very fine, and an ornamet to the bank. But, gentlemen, en it is proposed to send these new bil into the far West, there to be traded*T for cattle—torn, soiled, and porhapiitterly destroyed—I, for one, most si smnlv protest. I venture, this mometl gentlemen, to assert the opinion, th should you be so unwise as to allow ti ae new Dills to be sent North and W broadcast beyond Lansingburg. I :henectady, and away the other side* Utica (as I understand this man piloses to take some of them,) you wil lever see them again, so long as tie nk of Albany has an existent orftnatpe."

Tile nbtion was lost, and the gold wajdu^ptiid. l»

^fcotrtrRY merchant who wanted twotoilos' irons several years ago, ordeHlth)m of Messrs. Dunn Spencer, hat-fears merchants, then doing busiin flis city. He first wrote this "Please send mo two tailors,

Thinking this was bad gramdestroyed it and wrote this one: f»nd me two tailors' geese.' refaction he destroyed this one fear he would recieve live geese. iught over the matter till he was verykuch worried, and last, in a momenflf desperation, he seized his pen and rote the following, which was duly tiled: "Messrs. Dunn A Spencen Fuse send me one tailor's goos«, and qn it, send me another."

thought, would qualify lunat"

lowm^|n a month.

onymons correspondent sends Bon of the Squib Department"

to "T the foiwin

which wo insert without rs. Hoe, of this city, last ye birth to twins—a boy and a le bov he named Watt and the

merci week girL girl good.

What Ho! and Idaho is

"W stui

is Europe to America?" said orator. "Nowhar Whar is call Engbut what

Nowbar! They stress of the

lan

maket esea? The Mississippi! And got to do is to turn the Missisthe Mammoth Cave, and the navy will be floundering in

all sippi i^ E ma

hails cachin-

imnroX rWble musoiejlie being that

thousand dollars fortho best OTproJv jrtiagtitehedfrom all others by the

given to money-making,

if even less than the English. Wo Eas awkward in our own fun as a icing elephant any cultivated former will tell us that Americans do know how to enjoy themselves, lusement is one of the lost arts on

Western Continent. Our parties our pic-nics are stiff as a poker, ihaveno holiday worthy of the namo. ineed of clergymen preaching against isements let them rather demand lire and better. We ought to have A good, rousing holidays every ilath we have scarcely two a year. ^Germany they are as plenty as ks, and in Itaiy they outnumber days. hr neighboring amusements, too, ipassing away—the well-remember-jewing-circle, the delightful applethe corn-husking, the—ha!—the it pie-bush! Before the era of laborng machinery and silk ribbons, st all vanish with a pathetic good-

We are becoming painfully and t( fcedly abstemious. let there are men and women in a ry community—good people who JTO been unfortunate in their early (lining or their manner of "getting" iigion—who actually think that mirthfness—at least, any methodical, infitional mirthfulness—is an excregnce to be cut off, or plague-spot to pdug out that as long as it remains, lis to be resisted and mournM over as jpof that we were "born in sin." Oey have not yet found out that aiusement is one of the tools God •vrks with, and that it is, in its way, lanecessary as devotion. This century is learned that relaxation for the body if necessary and this generation is ltrning that relaxation ior the mind is eaally necessary that amusement spplies spiritual gymnastics that the nnd has flexors and extensors as the biy has, and that it derives from reasoable diversion the same advantage wich the physical frame derives from tb trapeze. this view, amusement need not neessarily have an element of instruction nor a joke necessarily have a mornor a laugh always admit of being lained and justified. In this view

VEGETABLE HISTORY.

BY JOSH HIM

The culler

is one OT natur's

The strawberry sweet pets. She makes them wOrth fifty cents, the first she jjhakes, and never allows them to be sola at a 'menti price.

the strawberry is like

the settin* sun under a thin cloud, with delicate dash ov the rain bo in it its fragrance iz like the breath ov a baby, when it first begins tew eat wintergreen lossingers its flavor iz like the nectar which an old-fashioned goddess used tow lenve in the bottom ov her tumbler when Jupiter stood treat on mount ida.

There iz many breeds ov this delightful vegetable, bnt not amean one in the whole lot. 1 think I have stole them, laving around loose, without any pedigree, in somebody's tall grass, when I waz a lazy school boyt th:it out dreadful easy without any white sugar on them, and oven a bug occasionally mixed with them in the hurry ov the moment. Cherry's are good, but they are too much like sucking a marble, ww,*1 a handlo tew it. Peaches are good if y« don't git ennv ov the pin feathers into ure lips. Watermelons will suit ennybodv who iz satisfied with half sweattoned drink but the man what kan eat strawberrys, besprinkled with crushed sugar and bespattered with sweet kream (at sumboddy else's expense), and not lay hiz hand on hiz stummuk and thank the author ov strawberrys and stummuks, and the pheilow who pays for the strawberrys, iz a man with a wornout conscience—a man whose mouth tastes like a hole in the ground, that don't kare what goes down it 0

Kokemuts grow up in tho air, in a hot climate way over the ocean, about 80 feet from the ground—on top ov a

^•riiey are generally picked up bi the monkeys in the naborhood, who throw them at the natives in exchange for tho stones that the natives heave at the monkeys.

They grow az a negro's head duzo with a good deal of skulls tew them. ATvokernut after it has been skalpt resembles an old ten-pin ball, only little more round one way than tuthor.

On the end ov the nut towards you iz 2 eves, fast asleep. The kokernut iz opened bi breaking the skull, and this brings em tew their milk.

The milk in the kokernut haz never been explained jret—and tho reason iz, bekauso nobody haz ever asked me tew do it.

Whenever tho philosophers giv it up I shall reply tow tho konundrum. Az an artilclo ov diet, koker iz about on a level with tho frcnch raw turnip, and iz az hard to digest az one ov Sekretarv Seward's letters ov State.

Biled koker might possibly be good, it it warn't a great deal better when it was raw and raw kokernuts iz only

good

for children and young greyhounds tew eat, whoso stummuks are like a nutmeg grater.

The only real good thing about this foreign nut is its skull they can be cut into 2 and made into kups and must confess, they do look kind, when laid on a clean flat stone bi the side ov a. meadow spring, but kant drink out ov them misolf, without thinking, that if they hadn't been cut in 2, "wh*it a kapital thing they would be to build a young darkey tew.

But this iz only a foolish notion ov mine, nnd probaply it couldn't be did ennvhow.

for his

BJIBUUW

while accompanying tho words might have been heard tho sharp click ot a pistol. Tho person addressed waB a weary newspaper man wending his lonely way homteward, in the outskirts of the city, about 3 o'clock in the morning.

Oh, yes, certainly. I'm in no hurry. Only walking for exercise. Just as soon hold up my hands as not. I'm not armed. Ploase turn thai pistol a little to ono sido. It makes mo nerv ous."

Hand over your cash." *'\J. Haven't nary a red with me. You see they took all that away from me when they entered my namo upon the books."

Where did they tako your money away from you Oh, yes what, at the pest-house You see I'm a small-pox patient, just out for exercise. They won't lot me walk about in tho daytime with my face in this condition, so I havo to go it after dark and lato at night, when tho streets are empty. By the way, stranger, the wind is rather in your direction, and, unless you ain't particular about it, it might be just as well to stand on the other side. I've got my silver watch, though. If you like it, come and take it. You're at perfect liberty to search me, if you like, only don't point that pistol this way it's uncom-

fortable. re M'ant the watch

"No thank you," said tho robber, backing away and around toward the other side "I couldn't take anything from a man so unfortunate as you are, Here—there's half a dollar for you, joor tellow. Go and get something to Irink, and bo threw tho coin toward him, still backing off. "As you're only walking for exercise, it won't incommode you—"

Oh, not a particle. Fd just as soon walk with you, it you desire it. Either way, though, it's all the samo to me. Thank you for your half. Won't you join me and drink to my recovery?''

Well, you go round the block tho other way as 1 Aavn't hurt you, say nothing about having met me. I guess I'll go this way and then watching till tho supposed small-pox patient had turned the corner, he started oil on a full run in the opposite direction.

Mr. Newspaper Man proceeded on homeward undisturbed, and slept the sleep of one «who enjoys tho consciousness of having dono a good thing, and four bits better off for having met a highwayman.

THK annual tale of true love long baffled, at last triumphant, comes from Cincinnati. The young lovers torn apart by parental hatred, became insane, and wero severally confined in lunatic asylums, one at Columbus, the othor at Longview. Tho former institution was burned and tho young man transferred to the other, where by chance the lovers one day met and flew to each other's arms. The parents' hearts melted, the long withheld consent was given, reason resumed her throne, and now the most "heavenly" couple in tho State are the longsundered, chance-united, ex-maniac lovers.

THE friends of humanity will not be inconsolable to learn that Pierre Bonaparte, the ruffian and assassin who created snch a sensation duringthelate Empire by murdering Victor Voir, is reported to he in very straitened circumstances in Belgium. It is said he has sent a begging latter to Louis Na-

Ctive,

leon,

stating that he deserves assisas he delivered L. X. from one

of his most Jmpeacable enemies.

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A WOMAN'S APPEAL. Among all the great orators, whetherlit^mg ortl&Ml. at will be hard to find anything lrttarii% the impress ot caltnre, geniuk and inspiration in mow|^iaiplou dfgroe^ than the following, from Miss AnnaEi Dickinson's lecture which waslfSilvured on her return from Colorado and Califor-

Women everywhere aro seeking for lartrer, broader, and free lives, but not from hatred or hostility to man for this movement is simply woman's effort to get nearer to man's side, simply the effort of the women ot to-day to koMfeStep with the music «1 to day. Brain for brain and heart ior heart, fhe seeks to climb the height# that you npA olimbinz. and would not lie deserted in the valleys you have left behind. It is not true that women naturally de-

you have left behind,

xc is »u„ —at women naturally desire the applause of Senates, or to heai Zir names shouted by a people's voice, but it is true that it is unnatural for them to cheerfhlty accept such wifehood and motherheod as in too many cases aro offered to them to day. A young girl, clear of faco, pure ot heart, uncultured and untrained, sees herself more respected by the law than is a wife and mother. She sees a young man of 31 and a young woman of 20 standing together at the wedding altar, ractically equal in intellect and amition while in other couples that stood thus 20 years ago, she sees the husband almost always in advance ol ... .^ his wife. And she sees that at this man is well pleased to be with this ^9" man, but at 42 ho has his club, and is fond of going to concerts and lecturer without his wife, and cares much more

newspaper than for her conver

sation. For tho sweetness that charmed him first has cloyed he grows tired

looking down into eyes that must look up into his and in how many cases he goes to find a woman whose eves look straight into his own, and who becomes too oflon at onco a lovei and a friend. And then alas lor the husband, alas for tho wife, and alas for the other one. The sodiu misery today in America spripgs ftwn the fact that the man ofthe gfesent persists f^ot the past.' Sotig that woman's mother Is nobler1 society practically & above that which

wedding the woinai ciety is fond of sayi sphere as wife and than man's and yet puts every kind of Uj it assigns to woman. man's work may be lt ia done for ttoe and ends in time, bW Woman's work takes hold on eternity. What is put into the first of life is put into the whole of life. The work she accomplishes is wrought with spiritual tools to an everlasting end. Moths cannot

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the aires roil their rounds and eternity shall endure. Because, then, her work is greater, it should have the greater^ opportunity, .Becauso it is larger, itshould have tho largest opportunity. Society should not only givu to woman all that man possesses to-day, but it a ilirl does not want it, it should bo forest hf.v hncaiiRG the work that she

ed upon her, because the work does is to stand up in blessing or cursing against her at tho last groat day, and through all eternity. tell you sj ministers may put their fingers on thovr lips, editors drop their pens, and societv keep silent forever upon this question, unless they will go down^oeper and ascend higher. Enfranchise motherhood! Make it as noble to bo a mouei: 'H -^statesman. The lesson ojfr ., respect f°r%aWSbUg^^l dren whoso i»rents affcTMJln living. I 3 remember one who stands to me as th» ideal of things tender, and things K)ve-» ly, and things great, in womannood and in motherhood and, remembering her, I say a woman should be a mother to be loved, a superior to be reverenced, a creator to bo adored by her children. Speaking of tho greatness, and ihe majesty, and the divinity of the human soul, whotlier it be ill tho body of a woman or of a man, I bethink m« of a scene I witnessed last summer in the world-famous valley of tho YoSemite. A vast wall of rock on the ono hand, tho wierd, gloaming fall of 400 feet on tho other, an abyss beneath. A thunderous roaring filling tho air, the spray and mist flying wild and white through tho night. Below me Egyptian darkness, all about mo sombre mountains, inaccessible steeps, peaks and points and pirlnacles and domes, shapes of grace, and shapes ol" majesty and power, towering above this sea ol darkness, tipped by the rising glory ot the moon, and fairly glittering in its light. A marvelous scone! I stood still and let it ponetrato me, and I was not crushed, for something witfiin me swelled and swelled and cricdpt last, "I am groater than these! Before thcih my essence was. Above them, beyond them, I can now Soar. When the heavens shall roll together as a scroll, and tho earth beneath them shall melt with fervid heat, then shall thej" vanish into nothingness, but I shall live, and grow and reigti, and go on from hight to higlit of suhlltaer regions, con'iuoring and to conquer. l?V)r the Spirit of God hath created me, and the breath of the Almighty hath given mo life. "Since these things are so—since He has made us in bis own imago, but a little lower than the angels, and crowned us with glory and honorf se€Hn it, woman than listens, as Ood hlmwelt hath commanded that no man take

vour crown.'*

HOW POOR PEOPLE IAVJ^ Alexander II. gets *3,250,000 nimully, or $25,000 per day.

Francis Joseph receives $4,000,000 annually, $12,322 per day, with a large allowance of beer.

Frederick William fa not paid quite as well as his neighbors over in Austria, but manages to keep up appearmces on f3,000,000 a year, or J^RIO per

EXKA REKD, a gentlo-colorcd girl of sixteen, residing In Memphis, lately whipped a United States letter-carrier and &re deputy marshals.

dav. "Victor Emanuel managedyget along in Italy on 92,400,000 a year or $7,8*10 per day.

Victoria receives only $1,200,000 a year but she owns several large dairy farms, and her butter commands tho highest price in tho London market.

NAPOMBON, at Chiselhurst, is getting rather more attention from his neighbors and cockney visitors than ho finds altogether agreeable. Hie enterprising individual put up a "grand stand," admission sixpence, frsm whb.h a fine view could DO had of the ex-imperial family on their way to church. "His Majesty wishes for seclusion," remarked a gentleman the other day to an exursionist, whoso gnudy neck-cloth, formed a pleasing contrast to his unwashed face. "Seclusion be d," replied the visitor. Hooray! rivo Lumperer

Ouvi Loo AX will return to America in September.